Freedom Focused GRAND Opening

Welcome to the GRAND OPENING

and virtual ribbon cutting ceremony of...

FREEDOM  FOCUSED

CORPORATION

And our newly revamped Corporate Website!

As part of our recent website overhaul, we are pleased to announce the official launch of our new Corporate Learning program, which includes a unique three-step process for organizational change: EDUCATE, ENGAGE, and INSPIRE. We are also pleased to announce that we are now offering 13 professional seminars and consulting services on the following 10 soft-skills topics:

• Self-Action Leadership: The Key to Personal & Professional Freedom 
• Leadership & Management 101: Principles for Leading Teams to Get Results 
• Business Communication Essentials: The Keys to Successful Listening & Speaking at Work 
• Mastering Your Emotions: The Art & Science of Emotional Intelligence at Work 
• Time & Life Management: Balancing Time Management with Life Leadership 
• Delivering Powerful Presentations: The Art of Public Speaking & Persuasion 
• Grammar Made Fun for Professionals: A Refresher on English Grammar & Proofreading 
• Results Focused Business Writing: The Fundamentals of Profess. Written Communication 
• E-Mail Professionalism & Etiquette: The Keys to Effective Electronic Communication 
• Leaders for Life: Self-Action Leadership for Young People 

We are excited to offer these new seminar trainings as part of this virtual GRAND OPENING.  With that said, we would like to officially, albeit virtually, cut the ribbon and open our doors for business at Freedom Focused LLC. 

Visit our website:

www.freedomfocused.com

To learn how we can help your team master self-leadership, improve interpersonal skills, and cultivate leadership behaviors:

The FREEDOM FOCUSED Story

Jordan R. Jensen, Ed.D.
Founder & CEO of Freedom Focused

At age 8, I attended my first Time Management seminar.  It was taught by my uncle, Hyrum W. Smith, a co-founder of FranklinCovey Company and an originator of the Franklin Day Planning System. At that seminar, I got my own day planner, and as a second grader, began applying principles of values identification, clarification, prioritization, goal setting, and other time management principles. I was hooked.

While serving as a missionary for my Church, I discovered how much I loved to help people by teaching principles of personal development.  Again, I was hooked. 

After graduating with my Bachelor's degree in English, I taught my first pro bono seminar on personal leadership at Lassiter High School in Marietta, GA in 2003.  By that point in time, I knew what I wanted to do when I "grew up."

In 2005, I incorporated my company, Freedom Focused, and taught my first paid personal leadership seminar at Pine Creek High School in Colorado Springs, CO to an audience of several hundred middle school students. 

In 2007, I transitioned from youth motivational speaking to professional soft-skills training where I facilitated seminars around the English speaking world for a variety of public audiences, corporations (including Fortune 500), the U.S. and Canadian governments, and all five branches of the U.S. Military on topics ranging from grammar & proofreading, business writing, and e-mail etiquette to strategic thinking, leadership, and emotional intelligence.

To date, I have facilitated over 600 professional seminars to over 20,000 people in 44 U.S. States, 5 Provinces of Canada, 9 Shires (Counties) of Great Britain, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Read what past clients are saying about Dr. Jordan Jensen's skill as a seminar facilitator.

Click HERE to watch Dr. Jensen in action as a leadership trainer.

In 2009, I returned to school to obtain my Doctoral degree in Education. After extensive scholarly research, I produced the Self-Action Leadership Theory and Model—two original frameworks for self-leadership that expand tremendously on the current scholarship--and introduced them in my dissertation. I immediately began developing and sharing material based on this theory and model to benefit the lives of others in their own personal journeys.

The Jensen family in 2015

On a personal note, in 2013, I became a father, whereby I realized more fully that there are some things even more important than the work we do at Freedom Focused.   

In September of this year, I will be launching a brand new book – a popular version of the research contained in my doctoral dissertation.  The book is called, Self-Action Leadership: The Key to Personal & Professional Freedom. 

To read what people are saying about Jordan's new book, click HERE and scroll towards the bottom of the article.    

At Freedom Focused, our vision is simple: to increase the personal and professional freedom of individuals everywhere. We seek to create positive, lasting change in the lives of those we serve and give them the tools to succeed.  In so doing, we also aim to change the culture of postmodernism that has polluted American culture in the past several decades and replace it with an AGE of AUTHENTICISM where integrity, transparency, decency, and excellence replaces the duplicity, opacity, divisiveness, and mediocrity of our declining nation.
  

At Freedom Focused, our mission is clear: to become the pre-eminent leadership, life skill, and character development organization in the World.  More importantly, we seek to influence positive, lasting change in real human lives that will eventually alter the very culture in which we reside. 

The world has had enough postmodernism, with all of its selfishness, narcissism, nihilism, and deceit.  The time has come for a whole new age – even an AGE of AUTHENTICISM – where selflessness, unity, purposefulness, and truth will ultimately carry the day.  

Click HERE to read about the AGE of Authenticism  
Click HERE to watch a video clip about the Perils of Postmodernism  
Click HERE to watch a video clip about the Age of Authenticism   
Click HERE to watch a video clip contrasting Postmodernism to the Age of Authenticism

We invite you to visit our newly revamped website and discover how you can best contribute to this growing movement of fundamental corporate and cultural change throughout the United States and World.  

www.freedomfocused.com

SAL Seminar: The AGE of AUTHENTICISM

In last week's post, I shared the video clip on Postmodernism. Today, I follow up that video clip by providing two additional clips that provide the answer to the troubled age of postmodernism that has dominated American Society in post-World War II generations. The answer can only come in a whole new age that is destined to eclipse postmodernism. The name of this age is: The AGE of AUTHENTICISM.


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Self-Action Leadership Seminar clip

Dr. Jensen's Education Speech clip

New Self-Action Leadership Book Coming Soon!

You may have noticed that I have published blogs more sporadically the past few weeks. This is because I have been busy at work completing the manuscript of my new book: Self-Action Leadership: The Key to Personal & Professional Freedom. I will be submitting the manuscript to the publisher on Friday, May 1st. I hope to have hard copies available within the next 4-6 weeks.

Now that the book is finally done, I will return to a posting blog articles on a consistent schedule. With the book nearing its completion, the plan moving forward is to post a blog once a week. Tentatively, blogs will be published on Tuesday, although it may occasionally come on a later day of the week. I intend to continue publishing a weekly blog post for the rest of my career with Freedom Focused.  I hope you will choose to remain a subscriber indefinitely as well.  Thank you for your interest in and support of this material! Without you, the reader, my work would have little meaning.

SAL Book: Things that Enslave Part 3

SHACKLE 5:
ARROGANT PRIDE

Pride has many definitions and connotations; some are positive and some are negative. The pride of personal accomplishments realized through honesty and hard work is a positive thing. My use of the term in this section describes two different forms of pride, both of which are negative.
The first kind of pride stems from the belief that you are existentially superior to other human beings for reasons of race, birth, religion, philosophy, genetic makeup, resources, opportunities, education, social milieu, achievements, cosmetic appearance, etc.

The second kind of negative pride involves a failure to see and accept things as they really are. This kind of pride develops as a result of dishonesty with others, self-deception, and in more serious cases, self-delusion. In exhibiting this kind of pride, you choose to uphold false narratives about yourself and others. People construct these lies to avoid the pain of facing reality. The longer you choose to hold onto such pride, the less in-touch you become with reality. Such detachment will result in foolhardy decisions based on the pretend world you have chosen to inhabit.

Fools, they fail by following their druthers to think they are somehow much better than others.

Fools are they who fail to see, and turn their heads from reality.

SHACKLE 6:
DISHONESTY

Dishonesty is a cancer. Lies and self-deceptions left unchecked quickly expand, poisoning every relationship and organization they touch.

For example, much of the legal field exists because of mankind’s propensity for deception. Government is often rife with dishonesty and a lack of transparency. Such deceit results in corruption, which in turns retards economic growth and inhibits the people’s trust in the state apparatus. Dishonesty in marriage often leads to divorce and broken families. In extreme cases, dishonesty causes death through preventable wars, famines, and economic disasters.

Sir Walter Scott once said: “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Many personal, relational, and organizational failures are rooted in deception and illusion. On the flip side, lasting personal, relational, and organizational successes are always built on a foundation of truth telling and integrity.

It is true that honesty, like anything, can be taken to unhealthy extremes, as my experiences with OCD attest—something I’ll detail in Book The Second, Chapter 15. Nevertheless, if I had the choice of hiring someone who was a little too honest, or someone who was a little too deceitful, I know whom I would pick every day of the week; and I’d bet you’d make the same choice. If you can imagine a world without dishonesty, you can imagine a world with a lot less worry and headache, a lot fewer locks, keys, and bars, and a lot more individual and collective success, prosperity, and peace of mind. Honesty is like an existential flashlight or spotlight; it illuminates reality. And in the end, reality--a fundamental concern of this book--is all that really matters.

However cliché, however trite, honesty will e’er be the path that’s right.

SHACKLE 7
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION

Many addictions, diseases, and preventable accidents and tragedies are linked to what we put into our bodies. From tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana, to the use and abuse of pharmaceutical and illegal drugs, there are countless opportunities to harm yourself and others, and develop dangerous—or even deadly—addictions to a wide variety of substances whether they are legal or not. Substance abuse is a scourge of our nation—and of many other nations in the twenty-first century. 

Just last year another talented young person with a bright future—Cory Monteith—truncated his life by two or three times due to an overdose of alcohol and heroin. What a terrible, yet avoidable tragedy! How many verses of this awful song must we collectively sing before our culture wakes up and wises up? How many more Janis Joplins, Elvis Presleys, Heath Ledgers, Whitney Houstons, and Phillip Seymour Hoffmans will be tragically sacrificed before collective humanity gets the memo?

Effective self-action leaders are sovereign over what they put into their bodies; they do not abdicate their sovereignty to substances. They refuse to forsake their freedom to wallow and waste away in the diabolical dungeon of drugs and other substance dependencies. How terribly disappointing, sad, and even shameful it is to have to crown one’s crypt with an epitaph so embarrassing: I deeded my life to drugs and alcohol. 

If you wish for your years to be more and not fewer,
Take great care and caution; steer clear of the sewer
Of substance abuse; whose cesspools are stinking
Of lives wasted snorting and smoking and drinking.

Next Blog Post: December 12, 2014 -- Chapter 12: Things that Enslave (Part IV) Shackles 8-10